Once upon a time there was an Olsen's Electronics, LaFayette Electronics, Newark Electronics, Inglewood Electronics, and one other place who's name escapes me, all within three blocks of one another on Century Blvd in Inglewood. It was possible to find anything electrical/electronic you needed in one place. Newark left a couple of years ago but wasn't open to the public for the last 15 years or so... no dropping in like a store.... Inglewood Electonics lasted until the late '80s and the others were gone before the mid-'80s.

The RS stores in the area inherited the customers from those closed stores and that helped them carry on until Tandy died. When he died RS began a slow death by CPA/MBA...

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I'm not "Motormouth Maul... The West Coast Beast". He's got to be running at least 2K out of a "Dave Made" and sporting a Moon Raker 6. Go to the "Super Bowl" when there's some Mother Nature. You'll hear him.

CQ... CQ... CQ DX... Anybody copy this barefoot mud duck?

Sam Levitch

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters, and if you do not have integrity, nothing else matters."Robert Mueller,special council.(2013)

Since this thread drifted towards Ham radio... The late Darren Rumas, an employee of mine for many years, worked to maintain 147.435 in SoCal. He was a great tech and he taught me a lot about the amature radio scene, the technology and the residents of 147.435mhz....

The Ham world and Sonic's fellow employees lost a lot when he passed (RIP N6VGU)....

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Radio Shack unveiled the TRS-80 computer.Tandy announces one of the first mass-market home computers, the TRS-80, to be sold in its Radio Shack stores.It features 4K of RAM and sells for $399 (or $599 with a monitor and tape recorder for storage). Upgrades will keep various TRS-80 models on the market until 1991.